By raising chickens and producing eggs, a group of Congolese widows will be able to provide for their families and feed the children in a nearby nursery school-and help protect endangered gorillas in the long run.

The park guards of Kahuzi-Biega National Park are vital to the security of the gorilla groups that inhabit the park. The Canadian Ape Alliance is helping to build and fund a school for their children.

A new mill at Tshivanga Station has been built for the families of the park guards. In addition to generating income, the new mill will eliminate the backbreaking work that the women from Tshivanga perform when they buy cassava from trucks that pass by their village and carry heavy sacks on their backs for up to 12 kilometres on dirt roads to have it ground into flour.

To ensure the widest possible distribution, Canadian Ape Alliance has released this compelling documentary in DVD format. It is now available for home viewing or to be shown in colleges and universities.

Using state-of-the-art geospacial mapping technology, members of the Canadian Ape Alliance are helping guide an expedition into one of the last uncharted wilderness regions on the planet, the Tshuapa-Lomami-Lualaba (TL2) region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

To supplant poaching as a means of survival, the Canadian Ape Alliance is assisting the Pole Pole Foundation in providing local Batwa (Pygmy) women and men with alternate sources of income.

The Canadian Ape Alliance provides support to The Pole Pole Foundation, for environmental education and an extensive reforestation program.

The Canadian Ape Alliance is bringing the power of advanced satellite and computer technology to remotest Africa to provide technical support to conservation groups in the field.

This cooperative project between The Canadian Ape Alliance and Sir Sandford Fleming College illustrated the effectiveness of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in providing data to support conservation of the endangered bonobo.

This research project, based in Yaounde, Cameroon, and in cooperation with The Cameroon Wildlife Aid Fund & The Gorilla Foundation, represents stage one in a long term study of attitudes and beliefs toward the great apes and the natural world in Africa. Despite the multitude of intervention projects in Africa few, if any, have systematically studied the long term effect on local attitudes and beliefs. Understanding attitudes and beliefs gives insight into values. This project will be extended to explore attitudes and beliefs of people from rural and urban settings, people of all ages, and from different tribal and ethnic backgrounds. Results will continue to be posted on our website.
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Canadian Ape Alliance founder, Dr. Kerry Bowman, is accompanied by Karl Ammann and Jef Dupain on an expedition into the Lomako forest of DR Congo in search of the disappearing bonobo. Dr Bowman initiated this documentary which was produced by CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) for The Nature of Things with Dr. David Suzuki.